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Pouring their hearts into ‘Volley for Molly’

When she was a senior at Lexington High School, Molly Eisenberg led the girls’ volleyball team as its gutsiest player. Two years later, the former cocaptain still wears her team sweatshirt as she struggles against ovarian cancer. It’s that grit and ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  30 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

State panel overrules fire chief

Belmont’s fire chief passed over two candidates for a coveted captain’s post two years ago, instead choosing a third lieutenant on the force who had earned a lower score on a civil service examination. The decision by Fire Chief David L. Frizzell ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Civil Service

Audubon on the prowl for town sprawl

The Massachusetts Audubon Society aims to curb suburban sprawl, and is trying to provide tools to prevent it to fast-growing communities - with a particular focus on Upton and Shrewsbury. Reversing development trends could help protect community ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  12 Sep 2009

Redesign digs for downtown traffic cure

It’s taken more than a century of false starts, but a proposed redesign of the intersection of two state highways and busy railroad tracks in downtown Framingham finally has traction - if not the full estimated $113.9 million needed for ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Cuts result in reduced staff, fewer programs

Students in some area communities will find larger class sizes and fewer programs when they return to school this fall - despite an influx of federal stimulus money that headed off more draconian cuts. They may also see changes in special education and ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Michael Welch,  Scott Carpenter

Some suburbs coming up dry in stimulus funds

Several suburbs west of Boston will not get the bridge repairs, street repaving, and new or rehabbed municipal buildings anticipated under the federal stimulus bill, while others expect hefty funding for drinking water and sewer projects. After the ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Eric Johnson,  U.S. Congress

Hanscom critics fault governor for stimulus project

As trucks haul asphalt into Hanscom Field to repave two taxiways, critics of the airfield’s operation are faulting Governor Deval Patrick for failing to do more to stop the use of $3 million in federal stimulus money to bankroll the project. They say ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John F. Tierney,  Niki Tsongas,  Edward J. Markey

Watching and waiting

Many Hopkinton residents were excited when they realized what they might expect from a developer who bought 733 acres of prime open land that for generations has been the site of a storied suburban nursery and landscaping center. That was before credit ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  5 Aug 2009

Police see ranks thinning

Police across the region are weighing whether to retire as state officials consider further reductions in their pensions, and a handful have already left because of cuts in retirement benefits. Six Arlington police officers have retired, in part to ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  1 Aug 2009

Seeking progress on ramp

Where to put the handicap ramp on an old town hall dating to 1834 without marring its historical significance - that’s the question roiling tempers in Framingham. The dispute between historic preservationists and advocates for the disabled, who also ...

From CONNIE PAIGE, Boston Globe,  25 Jul 2009

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